Page 83 of Twisted Beauty

Would he be a fucking moron to try this again? With another American? He dragged a hand across the back of his neck.

Katie swatted him on the arm and placed her hands on her hips. “Are you listening to me?”

Matt sighed. “I’ll do my best, okay? Liv’s half of this equation. Don’t you think she should have some say in this?”

“She promised me it was only physical. But I see how she looks at you. Don’t be a dick, that’s all I’m saying.”

How she looked at him?

He almost smiled, which probably would have gotten him decked. But he was actually starting to hope that it was more than just lust for Liv. Either way, he’d had enough of this conversation.

He brushed past Katie and walked through Door Number Two. Liv had her camera out and was taking a picture of the bed, which also had a canopy, complete with mosquito netting tied off neatly at all four corners. Since the walls were open to the outside, he didn’t doubt they’d need it.

“This is beyond gorgeous,” Liv said. “I mean, I can’t believe how perfect it is. I need to take some video before we mess it up.”

Messing it up. Excellent idea.

Liv flipped a switch on her camera and filmed the room as she spun around. She lingered on the four-poster bed, the bamboo couch, and a wall that opened straight onto a balcony with the same concrete flooring inside and out. Off the edge of the balcony, the forest dropped away beneath them, so their room at the back of the building was almost at a second-story level. With a hammock hung on the balcony, and bamboo railing lining the deck, it felt like a tree house.

Finally, Liv turned the camera on Matt and he put a hand up to block the lens.

“But you’re the best part of the room,” she said. “If you really cared about my photography, you’d strip down and lie on the bed for a naked portrait.”

And that was why he couldn’t fucking resist her.

“Tell you what.” Matt shut the door. “I’ll strip down and get on the bed if you turn that thing off first.”

She switched it off, and he took the camera from her hands, placing it carefully on the couch. He walked back to her, threaded his hands in her hair and lowered his lips to hers. She tasted like heaven, every time.

“You realize we have to be quiet,” he whispered against her lips, “since there are no walls.” He felt the vibration of her moan all the way down to his cock. “Can you do that?”

When she looked up at him her eyes were already glazed over, her breathing ragged. She looped her arms around his neck and pressed her body up against his. “I can try.”

Matt slid his hands beneath her shirt and cupped her breasts. Her nipples pebbled beneath her silky bikini, and he tucked the material beneath one breast and then the other, pushing them up. He’d lifted her shirt just enough to get his mouth on her when someone knocked at the door.

Matt groaned against her skin.

“Get ready, kids, we’re all heading to the beach,” Katie said from outside the door.

“Did you hear something?” Liv whispered.

“Not a thing.” Matt ran his hand up her side and skimmed it over her breast. “You’re so soft. I can’t get enough of you.”

He lifted her shirt over her head and untied her bikini top in one swift motion. He wanted her so badly, he didn’t know whether he wanted to get his mouth all over her or bury himself inside her.

A loud knock interrupted them again, followed by Katie’s voice. “You have two minutes to change and then I’m coming in to get you.”

There was no lock on the door, he’d already checked. Sometimes he really wanted to throttle that girl. But then he’d have to answer to Zach.

Matt dropped his head and swore, but Liv laughed. “Let’s go with them and pick this up later, right where we left off, okay?”

Easy for her to say. Matt adjusted himself, but Liv reached down his shorts to touch him. “That’s not helping,” he muttered.

“I know. I just wanted to feel you.” She stroked her hand along his shaft and he hissed. She raised herself up onto her toes and pressed her lips to his. “Later,” she whispered.

As frustrated as he was, the walk down to the beach was nice, especially the part where Katie saw a gecko and screamed.

They took over a section of lounge chairs belonging to one of the outdoor bars, and had margaritas and papas served to them as they basked in the late afternoon sun.